flickr photo shared by Internet Archive Book Images with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) Often, people really like the workflows enabled by Google Forms but they’d like it to go one step farther . . . like adding up two submitted items, or running a particular function/formula against the submitted data. You can certainly go in there and manually enter formulas or drag down to apply them to additional cells but that sucks and if you’re automatically displaying this data live somewhere it’s an impediment to a solid workflow. Most importantly, it sets a human to do something that a machine ought to be doing- that is the path to Skynet assuming control. We can and must resist! Subjugate the machines whenever possible! The script below is broken into three parts and shows two different ways to set the value for columns based on data entered in a form. Part 1 – This is pretty much default information that lets the script know which spreadsheet and which page it’s working with. The getLastRow() is really handy for applying this to data as it is entered. This example form writes data to columns A – K. In example one, we do the math internally and just spit the result into the cell. That’s handy for lots of stuff and can be […]